so, it was an hour or so ago, somewhere between 8:30a and 9a, i guess… i am standing at my espresso machine, waiting for it to brew, and i look up out the kitchen window and there is this HUGE blue hot air balloon… i mean, this thing was CLOSE and LOW… MASSIVE… it looked…
Read More start your morning with a heart attackhttp://features.engadget.com/entry/1882345133499767/ there is much to agree with in both the article and the comments thread… as an added bonus, there is a great anti-microsoft rant in a user comment… among the highlights: If you told a stranger to Earth what they get away with on the desktop, they’d think their babelfish was broken.
Read More Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living roomtook quite a few in this last visit to my parents’ house, and uploaded some that have been sitting on our camera for awhile… so, the new ones are in photos/2004-aug, the older are in photos/2004-mayjune, and photos/2004-july is going to stay the way it is, with just four pics in it (from the dead…
Read More new pics uploadeda fascinating article about a guy getting to spend a whole lot of time digging through stanley kubrick’s house… Stanley Kubrick’s films were landmark events – majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films grew longer and longer, and less and less was seen of the director. What…
Read More opening Kubrick’s boxesseems every time we meet someone that actually has a real interest in movies, it is always horror… usually cheap, sleazy, b-grade horror… we try to be open-minded and go with the idea that maybe there is just something we don’t know and perhaps it is simply a matter of broadening our horizons, so, we…
Read More horror nighthttp://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63578,00.html damn fascinating… here are some excerpts… The world of massively multiplayer online games is often a dangerous place, what with constant threats from bloodthirsty monsters and murderous non-player characters. But now players have even more peril to contend with: addictive drugs that can incapacitate or kill their characters. The designers of Achaea, one of…
Read More virtual worlds, virtual drugsi would just like to call attention to this link, since i get a daily kick out of it… over there on the menu on the left of this page, under “Links”, is a link that says “My LJ Feeds”… this is part of the “Friends Page” features on LiveJournal… for those not familiar with…
Read More My LJ Feeds Linkverily, so says this tidbit on yahoo news via i forget who… heros of mine, they are… so, i thought of the link in our little orrl thing… the writings of Penn Jillette (yes, the big one of Penn & Teller) Philosopher Warrior Extraordinaire… from his articles for PC-Computing, dating back to 1990, his Excite…
Read More 30 Years of Penn & Teller[moved from my LiveJournal] well, here is Premiere.com’s idea of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time (via Fark) though, i found fark’s comments thread about this article to be a much better read, with many more suggestions i agree with than premiere’s… (btw, both fark links above go to the “Avantgo” versions, which…
Read More 100 greatest movie characters?[moved from my LiveJournal] Current Mood: amused Current Music: Space Channel 5 Remix Soundtrack i read this one long, long ago and tought it was perfect, and i was relating it to the folks a little while back, so, just had to get the full text for any and all to see… stop me if…
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